The premature elimination of Inter Milan from the Champions League remains one of the main talking points in Italy. Responsible for another European failure is sought. They all point to Antonio Conte.
The Lecce coach, as happened last season, has seen his Inter leave the best European football scene too soon. This season even worse, because there will be no Europa League either.
Criticisms of Conte are furious, while there are some who do not exempt the players from responsibility, the most important to be exact.
Del Piero does it, for example. The Juventus legend, now a commentator, believes that in the big events the best players have to respond and in that sense he shoots Lukaku.
“I’m sorry to see Lukaku in these conditions because he disappeared in the second half. His presence should be more important since he undoubtedly has enormous qualities, he has a great heart, but against Shakhtar he was the protagonist of a bad page ”, says the former Italian player in Sky and publishes daily AS from Spain.
Lukaku has scored four goals in this Champions League, two doubles, one in each game with Gladbach. In addition, the clash against Real Madrid at home was lost. In the game against Shakhtar, he was not the usual one and his team missed him.
A few days before he had named himself one of the best five center forwards in the world, but that is of little use to the Nerazzurri fans now. Lukaku maintains good figures, but in Milan he is blamed for not appearing in the most important matches.
Thus, there has also been time to remember that he did not exactly have his day in the Europa League final against Sevilla either. What’s more, that day he ended up scoring in his goal and missed a resounding chance against Bono. (D)
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